Thank You (Izuku X Momo) (On Hiatus)

Step 2

Midoriya jumped away from the ice  only to have his arm left arm frozen. Todoroki had used the curved ice as bait to make Midoriya have to turn his head far enough to the side so he wouldn't see Todoroki's next attack.

Before Midoriya could send One for All into his right arm, the ice continued to crawl up his body and encase his whole torso. His shoulders and hips were frozen, making movement even more difficult.

Todoroki wasn't about to take any more chances, he prepared one final attack.

'No! It's not ending here! Not like this!'

"OH! AND THE HUMAN TWO SIDES OF A PILLOW AT NIGHT MANAGES TO CAPTURE MIDORIYA ONCE AGAIN! WILL HIS NEW MOVES GET HIM OUT OF THIS ONE!?!?!?"

Midoriya refused to lose against an opponent who was handicapping themselves. While Midoriya wasn't a man of pride, that was too much. Not only that, but it was how he lost, he wasn't sure how he would be able to look at Yaoyorozu or All Might afterwards.

He needed to speed up Step 2. ASAP

"Why won't you use your fire!?" belted out Midoriya.

Todoroki halted, at first shocked, but then angry. "Did...Did my old man put you up to this!? Are you trying to get me to use my left side for HIM!?"

Todoroki's pause gave Midoriya just the smallest amount of time he needed to think of how to escape...and it was dumb.

Like, really stupid.

But it was all he had, and besides. While this was still reckless, Aizawa couldn't exactly tell him he DIDN'T use his head.

"No! I'm not doing this for him! I'm doing this for me!-"

Five. Just five percent. No more.

"for the people I owe my life!-"

He sent it straight up through his body

"for the people who support me!-"

He thought of All Might, his mom, his friends, especially his newfound connection to Momo

"But right now,more importantly-"

The entire crowd noticed Midoriya's forehead begin to glow and crackle.

"I'M DOING THIS FOR YOU!!!"

He slammed his head down, headbutting the ice surrounding him.

Ice shattered everywhere, fog and mist from the ice surrounded the area of impact. When it cleared, Midoriya stood, free from his ice prison.

Blood from a gash on his head from a sharp edge of the ice oozed down the side of his face. His forehead bright red and irritated.

"You can't live like this. Having others hold you down. Having a piece of you that you hate, keeping you from being the best you can be. I know what that's like. But I'm not letting those things hold me back anymore! I'm giving it my all to be here!"

Midoriya jumped forward and slammed his fist into Todoroki's stomach, his adrenaline too high to give a damn about his finger being battered on. Todoroki skidded to the ground.

"Look at me! My head, my fingers, even with your ice attacks, you haven't even laid a scratch of your own on me! I'm trying to be a hero, one that smiles, and one that everyone looks up to! Everyone here is, and they all are giving everything to do it! If you can't do that then you don't deserve to win! SO COME AT ME WITH EVERYTHING YOU GOT!!!".

The stadium was silent, no one could believe or even understand what was happening. Todoroki clenched his fist, frustrated at the entire situation.

"I won't...I refuse to use his damn quirk."

"IT'S YOURS!!! IT'S YOUR POWER NOT HIS!"

Todoroki's eyes widened. Everything around him disappeared. His memories, long forgotten, flooded in like a dam had broken.

His mother and him, sitting down watching All Might on the television. She spoke to him.

"You want to be a hero, right Shoto? That's good, you aren't bound by his blood. You will be who you want to be. You'll be your own amazing hero."

He looked up to Midoriya and the next thing everybody knew, an explosion of heat and fire erupted from the arena.

Step 2: Complete.